stadial

English

Etymology

From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪdɪəl/

Adjective

stadial (comparative more stadial, superlative most stadial)

1. (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
2. (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:

     He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.

Derived terms

• interstadial
• intrastadial
• stadialism
• stadialist
• stadially
• trans-stadial
• trans-stadially

Noun

stadial (plural stadials)

1. (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German stadial or Latin stadialis.

Adjective

stadial m or n (feminine singular stadială, masculine plural stadiali, feminine and neuter plural stadiale)

1. done in stages

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	stadial		stadială		stadiali	stadiale
	definite	stadialul		stadiala		stadialii	stadialele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	stadial		stadiale		stadiali	stadiale
	definite	stadialului		stadialei		stadialilor	stadialelor

Noun

stadial n (plural stadiali)

1. stage

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	stadial	stadialul		stadiali	stadialile
genitive-dative	stadial	stadialului		stadiali	stadialilor
vocative	stadialule			stadialilor